helen has special attachment towards trees.describe
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Helen’s inner faculties to sense the beauty of nature was remarkable. It appears she could feel and imagine the things around better than those who had the eyes to see. She called this ability ‘a sort of sixth sense—a soul-sense which sees, hears, feels, all in one.
Using this sixth-sense, he had made many tree-friends in Wrentham. One of them was a splendid oak. According to Helen it was a king of trees. The tree was approximately eight hundred to a thousand years old. According to the local folk-lore, King Philip had breathed his last under this tree.
Helen had another linden tree friend which was not as majestic as the oak tree. Helen felt very sad when one afternoon it fell before the fury of a thunderstorm. Helen had close association with trees since her childhood.
in The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, what explains Helen's love for nature?
In The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, what explains Helen's love for nature?
Although Helen's love for nature should be understood as a lifelong emotional relationship, her initial attraction to nature stemmed from the fact that within her garden, Helen was not impaired by her disabilities.
In The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, nature is fascinating, comforting and terrifying for Helen. When she is very young, Helen finds that the garden brings her relief from her frustrations; it is "the paradise of my childhood" (chapter 1). She recognizes sections of the garden by the smells and also the texture of the leaves and she is particularly in awe of the roses. The garden is her refuge because she can rely on her other senses (not sight and hearing) and, even if only momentarily, she is not restricted by her disabilities.
In chapter 5, after Annie Sullivan arrives and begins teaching Helen, she encourages Helen's love of the outdoors and helps her make the connection between her world and the world around her by making Helen feel that "birds and flowers and I were happy peers." Helen even remembers that her first lessons with Annie are "in the beneficence of nature." Helen notes that Annie does not concentrate on academic subjects at first but rather on "beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand." However, Helen also learns about the unpredictability of nature and remembers how whilst climbing a tree "a nameless fear clutched at my heart." However, she sees it as another learning opportunity, and although she takes a long time to get over her fear, she does do so and feels "like a fairy on a rosy cloud."
Helen's education revolves around nature and she recognizes that